Sentence examples for obtain a pledge from inspiring English sources
The international community is currently focussed on putting together a major agreement on improving disaster policy and after many years of fighting to get animals included, WAP have managed to obtain a pledge to "strengthen the protection of livelihoods and productive assets, including livestock, working animals, tools and seeds" included in what is currently known as the Sendai Framework.
He obtained a pledge that the number of civilian advisers should be raised to about 1,000.
Nkrumah, obtained a pledge from the Mayor of Accra, & on the way back, in London, had tea with Mrs. Hugh Gaitskell.
Mr. Bakiyev was in Moscow seeking desperately needed financial support and obtained a pledge for a $2 billion loan and $150 million in aid.
Baker wanted to buy the rights to the trees and obtained a pledge of $200,000 from the governor of Louisiana for that purpose.
Mr. Flowers, the security coordinator in Salt Lake City, said that in meetings with Mr. Ashcroft there and in later conversations with the Justice Department, he had obtained a pledge for additional federal resources to beef up security.
Federal regulators have inspected a laboratory run by a secretive religious sect intent on cloning a person and have obtained a written pledge from the group's lead scientist not to experiment with cloning in this country, both the scientist and the Food and Drug Administration said.
He counted promised pledges as donations and inflated the amount of at least one of those pledges to obtain a $1.2 million loan, prosecutors said.
Al Qaeda long ago pledged to obtain a nuclear device.
Egypt's ambassador to the Palestinian Authority said Tuesday that Egypt obtained an Israeli pledge to hold its fire while efforts were under way to persuade Palestinian militants to stop the rocket barrages.
II § 2, III § 2. The Proposed Agreements gave ADS and Aladdin the choice of providing a pledge of collateral, obtaining a letter of credit, or obtaining a revolving credit facility.
